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W. F. BECK.

(No Model.)

COUPON BOOK.

No. 468,636. Patented Feb. 9, 1892..

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PATENT OFFICE.

PENNSYLVANIA,ASSIGNOR TO THE EUREKA CASH REGISTER COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

COUPON-BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Tatent No. 468,636, dated February 9, 1892.

Application filed November 30, 1891. Serial No. 418,500. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WARREN F. BECK, of Knoxville, county of Tioga, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Coupon-Books, of which the i'ollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to books in which each sheet is composed of a series of separable coupons or tickets representing values; and the invention consists in the combination, with such book, of a sliding scale or rule, which serves as a guide or indicator to enable the user to readily separate tickets for any given amount, commencing at any point on the page.

It also serves as a mark to cause the opening of the book at the proper point and as a guide or cutter against which to tear the tickets in the act of removal to prevent the improper mutilation of the book.

The scale or guide may be constructed of pasteboard, wood, metal, or any appropriate material mounted in any suitable position in the book and secured by connections of any suitable character which will admit of its being adjusted longitudinally.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a coupon pass-book opened, such as is commonly used for commercial purposes as a means of keeping accounts between the buyer and seller, provided with my improvements. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same closed on the line 2 2. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section on the line 3 3. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the scale in another form. Fig. 5 is a cross-section illustrating the same in position in a book.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a book comprising a series of duplicate leaves a, each composed of a series of coupons or tickets a, arranged in rows and separated by indentations or perforations a to admit of their being readily separated from each other and from the sheet at will. In the form shown these coupons represent equal values, and it is the practice in making use of the book held by the purchaser to remove at the time of each transaction a number of tickets corresponding in value to the amount of the purstrip mounted within the book vertically along the inner margin of the sheets and bearing numbers or grad nations indicating, as they are read from the top downward, the aggregate value of the adjacent horizontal rows of conpons.

0 represents a cord or thread extended vertically along the inside of the book, fastened at its two ends, and passed, as usual, through holes in the upper end of the scale. This thread serves not only to hold the scalein position within .the book and prevent its loss,

but to guide it longitudinally, so that it may be n1oved,as indicated by dotted lines, into position to bring its upper end at the point where the separation of the coupons is to begin. For illustration, if three lines of conpons have already been separated the user will slide the scale downward until its first number registers with the fourth line. He then reads down the scale until he reaches an amount thereon corresponding to the transaction, and he notes that the removal of coupons is to cease at this point. Thus he is enabled without computation and without counting to instantly determine the proper point for separation. As the successive sheets are removed the scale can of course be used in connection with the sheets which have become in turn uncovered or exposed to View, so that one scale will serve for all the sheets in the book.

In Fig. 4 I have shown a scale differing from that first illustrated simply in that it contains a longitudinal slot Z). This scale may be secured in place by a staple or fastening device D, passed through the slot and bound into the edge of the book, as shown in Fig. 5.

It is obvious that the marks or graduations on the scale may be varied at will to suit the peculiarities of the book with which it is used.

The invention is applicable not only to books of the character shown, but also for books of mileage-tickets used for railway purposes, and generally to all books in which tickets or coupons are arranged in series in sheet form.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. In combination with a book having a sheet composed of separable sections or tickets, a sliding scale, substantially as described.

2. In combination with a book having a se- In testimony whereof I hereunto set my ries of sheets, each composed of separable hand, this 12th day of September, 1891, in the tickets or sections, a graduated scale located presence of two attesting witnesses. over the inner margin of the leaves, andaslid- 5 ing connection, substantially as described, to \Vitnesses:

permit the longitudinal adjustment of said GEO. W. MiLLER,

scale.

WVARREN F. BECK.

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